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I can't really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by "both" sides of the spectrum. It's just something I find interesting.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're absolutely clowning if you think you have the breadth of data available to confidently make such an assessment. This is, ironically, an incredibly Reddit moment.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how much of that on Reddit is just bots and shills, ie corporations paying to create and upvote posts and comments that support their agenda

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a more techy community since that tends to be early adopters. They tend to lean pretty heavy left and are more informed. You still have the techys with anime profile pics and are 4chan/incel that are right wing though. They get defederated really quick though.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Whenever I see a political thread here, it seems like the comment section is dominated by the most extreme of the left, with takes like "All right wingers are part of the MAGA crowd and advocating genocide" and "The right wing is weak, stupid, evil, and dangerous so we need to shut it down."

As a centrist (not a rightist,) I don't like this. We need rational discourse, not extremism and hate. Actually talk with reasonable people from outside your political circle please. (Reasonable people, not the right wing extremists that seem to be the only right-wingers y'all hear about.) Remember when we actually had a class struggle that made the people in power nervous instead of identity politics that get the working class fighting each other?

But then, most of the places I talk in are pretty politically left-leaning, so I guess being a centrist does make me look right-wing to a lot of people. I'm rarely seen pushing back against right-wing ideas, but that's because I rarely see right-wing ideas being presented (outside of leftists pointing at rightist ridiculousness) to push back against. That probably has to do with the internet as a whole leaning more left than right.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It depends on what you mean by being "centrist". In America the Democratic party IS the centrist party. If it wasn't for the small contingent of progressives in the Democratic party, they would actually just be a normal conservative party, but the party as a whole is still right of center, if not smack dab in the middle of it.

On the other hand, the Republican party has fully embraced the extreme far right tenants of fascism and are merely arguing over who gets to be it's leader. There is nothing "centrist" about them or their policies

Typically in my experience, most people who say they are centrists aren't moderates trying to find a balance, they are just conservatives who don't want to feel guilty about voting for the fascist party.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Centrism is the politics of thinking you're the rational party, but then you just side with status quo neoliberalism. Like seriously? Rational discourse and debate? Homie, that ship sailed with Reagan.

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